Co-authors: Sarah Clatterbuck, Chad Hietala, and Tom Dale A bit over a year ago, Ember.js got a major overhaul. In a tight collaboration between LinkedIn engineers and the open source community, we replaced Ember’s rendering engine with a new library, Glimmer VM, that improved performance and significantly reduced the size of compiled templates. Glimmer treats...

Editor’s Note: This post is based on Sarah’s talk “Sleek and Fast: Weight Management for your Fat Web Client” given at the Grace Hopper Conference this year in the Software Engineering track. The need for speed In the fall of 2016, our flagship engineering team completed an initial feature build-out for the new LinkedIn desktop site built on our new Pemberly...

Last month, we completed the third edition of our LinkedIn Women in Tech High School Trainee Program. For those who are unfamiliar, the vision behind the program is to inspire the next generation of women to study computer science and related fields. We aim to accomplish that goal by embedding high school students with software engineering teams at LinkedIn for...